How about a nice fantasy background for all those games that start on a caravan?

 

 

Teamster

You’ve been everywhere.  You’ve driven caravans to the frigged north to the scorching south.  Now you’ve been dragged into a different adventure out of your control.

 

Trait-Stops on the Way

You’ve been to all the towns in your territory, and you know how to find them at least generally.  When you succeed on a nature roll, you can generate a rough map in your mind and find the nerest town you’ve already been too.  Also, in your travels you’ve memorized the best towns to rest at and the best towns to sell goods at.

 

Proficiences

Skills:Nature, Intimidate, Perception

Tools: Mounts(land), navigator’s tools, crossbow proficiency

Equipment

Backpack, bedroll, hempen rope (50ft.), navigator’s tolls, tent, tinderbox, traveler’s clothes, waterskin, winter blanket, 35gp, 30sp, and 80cp

 

Thoughts?

I didn’t see Skill Focus in the latest DnD Next playtest, so here is my take on it.

 

Skill Focus

Choose a number of skills equal to your intelligence modifier (minimum 1).  You gain a +2 bonus to those skills.

 

 

Thoughts?

Here is a new background for your DnD Next Characters-the diplomat

 

Diplomat

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You have spent your time working in the middle of two groups in conflict.  You spent your time either on the front of war or in business negotiations.  You serve either for the good of those involved or for your own pocketbook.

trait-Between Two Groups

You are deft at standing between two worlds.  Your work proceeds you, and when you offer your services people know who you are.  When you work as a go between for two groups, you will be payed for your services, and if things do not go well, you will not be targeted by either group unless you attack first

 

Proficiencies

Skills:    Persuasion, Insight, History

Tools: Mounts (land), Vehicles(land)

 

Languages

Three of your choice

Equipment

Traveler’s Clothes, fine clothing, backpack, ink, ink pen, paper (ten sheets), merchant’s scales, signet ring, sealing wax, 133 gp, 4 sp, 8 cp

How about some more feats for DnD Next?

 

Skill Training

You have dedicated yourself to studying a new skill in your free time.

You gain the following:

• Gain proficiency in two skills of your choice
• Gain a +1 bonus to an ability score associated with one of the skills  to a maximum of 20

 

Thoughts?

How about a feat to gain some extra item proficiencies in DnD Next?

 

 

Extra Tool Training

You gain the following bonuses:

• gain a proficiency with a tool
• gain a +1 bonus (to a maximum of 20) on an ability associated with using that tool.  If no ability is listed with that tool, then you choose the ability to increase.

Thoughts?

More fun with DnD Next.  How about a feat to give other classes a bit of expertise?

 

Practiced Focus  or  Skill Focus

You’ve spent time honing your abilities to a razors edge

You gain a +3 bonus on all skills with which you are proficient.  This bonus stacks with you proficiency bonus, but does not stack with the rogue’s expertise ability.

Ok, I’ve been reading a lot of the DnD Next playtest.  Let’s keep writing some more feats for it!

 Time in the Yard

You spent some of your youth training in the yard with the other men at arms, and its stuck with you.

When you take this feat, choose a fighter style.  You gain the benefits of the fighter style.

How about a throwback to the old school DnD cartoon with the new DnD edition?

 

Force Bow

Rare Magic weapon (long bow)

This bow looks like any other bow, but it has now string.  When it is drawn, a crackling line of force forms int he wielders hands with a arrow made of force.

Property:  You gain a +1 bonus to attack rolls and the damage rolls you make with this long bow.

All damage from this weapon is force, not piercing damage.

You gain a +5 proficiency bonus to all attack rolls when you use this weapon in a trick shot.  Trick shots can be things such as disarming an opponent from range, triggering traps, etc.

 

Thoughts?

How about a new wand for DnD next?  Hot off the presses!

Wand of Sleep

Uncommon magic wand

This wand is carved from pure oak with the only adornment being a moon shape carved into the handle.

Property:  This wand has 7 charges.  As an action, you can cast sleep using the spell sleep for two charges.  If you cast sleep using one of your prepared spells, you may use two charges from the wand and roll d10’s instead of d8’s to determine the number of hit points worth of creatures put asleep.

If you expend the wand’s last charge, roll a d20.  On a one, the wand blackens and crumbles to dust,  forever destroyed.

The wand regains 1d6 +1 expended charges each day at dusk.

Thoughts?

I’ve been thinking about skills in DnD Next.  what do you think about these feats?

 

Ability Focus

Benefit:Pick one ability which which you do not have an expertise die.  You gain an expertise die in that ability similar to the rogues.

 

Ability Mastery

Prerequisite: expertise die in an abilty

Benefit:When you use perform a skill check using an  ability which which you have an expertise die, you gain advantage on the check.

 

What do you think?